AngloHaskell/2010

AngloHaskell 2010 is taking place on the 10th and 11th of September in Cambridge, UK (yes, tradition has been broken and month has changed!). It's free, and everyone is invited! Simply add your name to the wiki and we'll see you there.

Dates and Venues

Attendees

Per last year, all attendees should bring or make a nametag that identifies you by your real name and/or IRC name. If anyone wants to drag a roll of stickers and a pen along that'll help!

If you can't make the start on Friday, or can only make it on Saturday, that's fine. If you're not sure where everyone's going to be, give one of the contacts a call or a text.

Definite

Derek Wright (Fri + Sat)

Graeme Burnett (Fri + Sat)

Neil Mitchell (hopefully Fri, definite Sat)

Add your name here

Possible

Claude Heiland-Allen

Eric Kow

Sam Martin

Joshua Lee Tucker

Ben May

Alex McLean (hopefully Fri, can't do Sat)

Magnus Therning

Richard Fergie (just Friday)

Add your name here

Lodging

It's likely that there'll be people in need of crashspace and so forth, so please organise here! Both offers and requests are good.

Hostels

Details coming soon...

Programme

Planning will be taking place on IRC as per previous years: #anglohaskell on irc.freenode.net

If you're having trouble following things on IRC, the discussion page on the wiki might be a good place to leave comments and questions.

In previous years we had talks in the day on a Friday, followed by pubbage in the evening and assorted activities on the Saturday. This seemed to work, so we'll follow a similar model this year.

Timetable

This is somewhat preliminary and subject to change as talks are confirmed or otherwise, but the overall structure should hold:

Day

Time

Event

Friday or Saturday

10am

People start arriving

10:30 am

Tea, coffee and biscuits

11am

Talks

1pm

Lunch

2pm

More talks

3:30pm

Tea, coffee and biscuits

4pm

Remaining talks

4:??pm

Functional Grit - small talks that may grow into functional pearls. Open session, anyone can give a quick talk!

When people get hungry or the venue kicks us out

Food! Likely we'll head out for a curry

Beer o'Clock

When everyone's finished eating, we'll head for a nearby pub

2nd Day

To be confirmed

Talks

Volunteers please! Previously we have had a largely more practical set of talks than you might find at Fun in the Afternoon or an academic event. This was a good thing, and some of the best talks were from people who were far from considering themselves as experts, so feel free to tell us about your experiences.

Talks planned and/or offered:

Claude Heiland-Allen - "mandulia: A zooming visualisation of the Mandelbrot Set as many Julia Sets"

Abstracts

Mandulia provides a zooming visualisation of the Mandelbrot Set as many Julia Sets. Featuring a profiled and optimized renderer, and a Lua configuration and scripting interface.

Title here

abstract goes here

Functional Grit

In previous years there has been a successful 'functional grit' section. Usually an informal session for people to briefly talk/demo works in progress, no need to pre-register, just turn up and talk. Think small stones that might turn into functional pearls. If there's time it'd be great to do again this year.

Other activity

After Friday's talks, food and drink would be a good idea! Curry is traditional and probably the default, but we're open to other suggestions. After that, we'll retreat to a pub for the evening.